New Orleans For lower income and working families in these days of escalating rents and no money flowing in the credit deserts, the old saying that if it “weren’t for bad news, there wouldn’t be any news at all” feels too much like an everyday story. In Detroit and Cincinnati recently, there was some good …
Category: ACORN
Is Neighborhood Activism the Answer or Part of the Problem?
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/No-Time-Like-The-Present.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I can vividly remember an argument I listened to from the back of the room perhaps fifteen years ago at an ACORN Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. where Robert Putnam, the Harvard sociologist and author of the often-cited book about the deterioration of community …
Is Code Enforcement the Friend or Enemy of Lower Income Family Home Ownership?
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/01_VEN_AQUI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans As a principle part of our organizing around adequate and affordable housing over decades, we’ve always believed in there being a “warrant of habitability” and some clear standards in housing codes that insured the safety and health of lower income families. We still believe that, …